NECO Ellis Island Medal of Honors

Philanthropist, arts patroness, veteran’s activist and Hamptons visitor Dame Patricia J. Kennedy (founder of Step Up 4 Vets), Long Island Congressman Peter King (Chairman of theHomelandSecuritySubcommittee on Counterintelligence & Terrorism) and a group of other prominent Americans will receive the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations‘ (NECO) highest honor, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, at a ceremony on historic Ellis Island.

NECO sponsors the Ellis Island Medals of Honor which are presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic groups while exemplifying the values of the American way of life.